Worsening locust invasion threatens food security across East Africa

Thanks! Share it with your friends!

You disliked this video. Thanks for the feedback!

Published Feb 1, 2020

The worst locust outbreak that parts of East Africa have seen in 70 years needs some $76 million to help control and the money is “required by, actually, now,” the United Nations said Thursday.

So far just $15 million has been mobilized to help stop the outbreak that threatens to worsen an already poor hunger situation for millions of people in Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia and elsewhere, Dominique Bourgeon, emergencies director with the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, told a briefing in Rom…
http://www.africanews.com/2020/01/31/worsening-locust-invasion-threatens-food-security-across-east-africa

Africanews on YouTube brings you a daily dose of news, produced and realised in Africa, by and for Africans.
Africanews is the first pan-African multilingual media outlet, unique in its concept and vision.
Subscribe on our Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/africanews and receive all the latest news from the continent.